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Title: Beyond College Rankings: A Value-Added Approach to Assessing Two-and Four-Year Schools

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Publication Year: 2015

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Abstract: The choice of whether and where to attend college is among the most important investment decisions individuals and families make, yet people know little about how institutions of higher learning compare along important dimensions of quality. This is especially true for the nearly 5,000 colleges granting credentials of two years or fewer, which together graduate nearly 2 million students annually, or about 39 percent of all postsecondary graduates. Moreover, popular rankings of college quality, such as those produced by U.S. News, Forbes, and Money, focus only on a small fraction of the nation’s four-year colleges and tend to reward highly selective institutions over those that contribute the most to student success. Drawing on a variety of government and private data sources, this report presents a provisional analysis of college value-added with respect to the economic success of the college’s graduates, measured by the incomes graduates earn, the occupations . . .

Url: https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/BMPP_CollegeValueAdded_EMBARGO.pdf

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Authors: Rothwell, Jonathan; Kulkarni, Siddharth

Publisher: Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Other

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